A lot of people have tried to innovate Wild Vomit. I personally stuck three Next Generation Technology in my deck, figuring it would be magnificent tech against anything running Flame Trap. I then proceeded to not see Flame Trap in a single deck I played against for two months.

The timer’s still running.

I still beat people, but now I was doing it with three dead cards in my deck. I had fantasies about clever responses to Savage Beatdown-pumped attacks, but needless to say, those never materialized into reality. So I dropped my three Technologies. And that was that.

However, Delgado Mendoza Rodrigo hasn’t given up so easily. His Wild Vomit build is dramatically different from the norm. If you’re looking for the usual 25 and 12 balance of Wild Sentinel and Sentinel Mark IV, well, you’re in for a shock.

Characters
2 Mark II, Number II
15 Sentinel Mark IV
15 Wild Sentinel
4 Senator Kelly
4 Longshot

Plot Twists
4 Reconstruction Program
4 Cover Fire
2 Wave of Sentinels
2 Thinking Outside the Box
4 Combat Protocols

Locations
4 Underground Sentinel Base

The deck sacrifices some of its reliability in using Longshot through losing about ten Wild Sentinels in order to run more plot twists and two copies of Mark II, Number II. To compensate for the missed Longshot attempts, it runs Thinking Outside the Box. It’s not a new idea—people have been going “Hey! Longshot rules with Thinking Outside the Box!” for a while now. It’s just that, to the best of my knowledge, no one has yet been successful with it in a $10K.

Delgado Mendoza Rodrigo went undefeated for the first portion of Day 1 with this deck, so I think that qualifies as being successful. It was surprising to see how effective even just two copies of Thinking Outside the Box could be. Personally, I think if this deck is tested with more by other parties in the future, the number of Boxes will get maxed out, but for now the deck remains a valid and very interesting example of a fun hypothesis taken to competitive heights. For those not familiar with the combo, you essentially compensate for missing with Longshot by placing the cards you missed on the bottom of your deck so that next turn’s Thinking Outside the Box lets you draw the two you want. It’s pretty sweet, and can help you get to those Mark II, Number IIs as needed, as well as just providing more consistency to a standard Wild Vomit build.

Though no Sentinel Curve decks were played at the Mexico City TNT 8 $10K, this deck should be interesting enough to spark some new testing in us hardcore Sentinel fans.